The Bold & the Beautiful still has two original cast members: Katherine Kelly Lang, who plays Brooke Logan, and JohnMcCook, who plays Eric Forrester.Usher, CelticWoman and DionneWarwick are among the musical guests who have appeared.B&B has shot on location in 14 cities across 11 countries.
The Emmy-winning hair and makeup departments have used an estimated 1,790 cans of hairspray and 415 tubes of lipstick.The Bold & the Beautiful has been nominated for 306 Daytime Emmy Awards and has won 98.The number of weddings by The Bold & the Beautiful characters on the show is 100. (Brooke alone has taken 21 trips down the aisle.)
The 35th anniversary episode is the 8,734th episode.The Bold & the Beautiful tapes about eight episodes a week.
A storyline in 2015 marked the first transgender wedding with characters played by contract cast in any television genre.The Bold & the Beautiful holds the Guinness World Record as the most popular current soap opera.The Bold & the Beautiful is watched by about 35 million viewers every day in more than 100 countries.Executive producer and head writer BradleyBell has won 16 Daytime Emmy Awards with 50 nominations total.Stage 31 is the studio at CBS Television City, in which all interior scenes for the show have been shot since its first day of production in 1987. In 2015, on the occasion of the 7,000th episode, CBS renamed it the Bradley P. Bell Stage.
The character of Brooke has had five biological offspring: Rick (Eric Jr.) and Bridget with Eric; Hope with Deacon; R.J. (Ridge Jr.) with Ridge; and Jack with Nick (carried by Taylor).Of Brooke’s 21 trips down the aisle, two were canceled and 11 were with Ridge.The number of babies born onscreen is 23.The Forrester mansion was modeled after the real-life estate of show creators, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell.The number of sets created for B&B by the art department is more than 1,700.Since the show’s inception, B&B cast members have memorized more than 393,750 pages of dialogue.Betty White may be one of the show’s most famous guest stars. She portrayed Stephanie Forrester’s mother, Ann Douglas, for 23 episodes from 2006 to 2009.
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